Worried about an elderly relative who lives alone? Upset that you can’t keep your unblinking eye on her 24 hours a day to ensure she’s safe and healthy? Living Independently Group, a three-year-old New York City company, is offering what it bills as the next best thing: sensors throughout her home to keep track of her movements.Living Independently markets its $80-a-month QuietCare service through its sales force and home-security giant ADT. It has also signed up more than 50 assisted-care facilities and home-care agencies. Its latest coup: Ecumen, an operator of more than 100 senior centers in Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, recently installed 20 QuietCare systems and plans to add 100 more this year. Living Independently’s CEO, John Lakian, 63, says he expects the deal to help bring revenues into the “high seven digits” in 2006. Here’s how his system watches over those who need it.
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